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by Enginerd
Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:03 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell FOIA
Replies: 475
Views: 185586

IMHO, it's the current reactor plant suppliers and fuel manufacturers that will certainly be the active and vigorous opponents. Buggy whip makers began to falter as the automobile took over. Makers of carriage bearings and similar either adapted to the new market forces, or died out. If cheap, non ...
by Enginerd
Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:01 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell FOIA
Replies: 475
Views: 185586

Anyhow, the choice was of Ladajo and he choosed to wait, so there is really nothing more to discuss about until 2011. There is of course another option for those anxious to take action rather than simply waiting or arguing endlessly about the number of angels that can dance in a polywell. There is ...
by Enginerd
Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:35 am
Forum: News
Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
Replies: 96
Views: 30803

Actually I've had several conversations with people in the power industry and they have indicated that many of their customers are asking for co-generation projects in the 100 MW range. Both military and commercial (Can we say Disneyland?) Hmm. You couldn't be thinking of the Hatch Geothermal Power...
by Enginerd
Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:32 am
Forum: News
Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
Replies: 96
Views: 30803

D Tibbets wrote:This reactor would dwarf even that. It is so powerful, and has such macro instabilities in its magnetic fields (it even puts Tokamaks to shame) that it would have to be placed a great distance from the Earth to be safe.
Best to put it at approximately 1 AU to be safe....
by Enginerd
Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
Replies: 96
Views: 30803

So how much sea water could be purified daily using the full output of a 100 GW power plant? Because, iirc, the value of the fresh water is greater than the value of the electricity to purify it once electricity gets in the 6 cent/kwh range. A modern reverse osmosis desalination plant, like the one...
by Enginerd
Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:14 am
Forum: News
Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
Replies: 96
Views: 30803

Re: A 100 GW D-T Plant

Looks like BS to me. They expect their system to cost well over $20 billion and produce 100 GW by using a particle accelerator to shoot ions at lithium coated deuterium fuel pellets surrounded inside a molten metal neutron absorbing chamber. Making such a system produce some fusion might very well ...
by Enginerd
Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: UNITEL AEROSPACE´s Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling ship
Replies: 15
Views: 7850

Re: UNITEL AEROSPACE´s Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling ship

AcesHigh wrote:What do you guys say?
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
-Carl Sagan

A quick flight to reload the liquid Helium tanks on NASA's WISE telescope would make me a true believer. Should be easy enough for such a ship.
by Enginerd
Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
Replies: 1893
Views: 659333

Interesting angle. I have been instructed that a material like cubic zirconia is an artificial diamond and a man-made diamond is a synthetic diamond. Could it be that both of us are correct: That your use has become entrenched for sapphire and rubies, while mine for diamonds? Perhaps the terms "man...
by Enginerd
Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:37 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Focus Fusion July Update and other stuff.
Replies: 37
Views: 9667

chrismb wrote:If you can keep some piece of work hidden and undisclosed for >10 years, then it means it didn't work!
Just like thorium reactors don't work?
by Enginerd
Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Focus Fusion July Update and other stuff.
Replies: 37
Views: 9667

Don't you realize that if you've never heard of it then it was fantastically successful? Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly! Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity. Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? ...
by Enginerd
Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: NewSpace 2010: Polywell and Vasimr
Replies: 149
Views: 53272

Launch loops were discussed in Analog Magazine (Hellooo Tom) about 20 to 40 years ago. My memory is hazy. Let me see if Google can refresh it: Dec 1983 Analog. 27 years roughly. It seems to me that loops were the most viable of anything I have looked at. I still like the elegant simplicity of a mas...
by Enginerd
Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:51 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Solar power from both light and heat
Replies: 0
Views: 2344

Solar power from both light and heat

Melosh calculates the PETE process can get to 50 percent efficiency or more under solar concentration, but if combined with a thermal conversion cycle, could reach 55 or even 60 percent – almost triple the efficiency of existing systems. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/new-solar-method-08...
by Enginerd
Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Favorable Comments made by ONR on Polywell Fusion
Replies: 61
Views: 38644

Enviros are insane. Not insane. Well intended... After all, nobody wants dirty air, and nobody wants oceans covered with oil slicks, and nobody wants poisonous dirt. "Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate ...
by Enginerd
Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Favorable Comments made by ONR on Polywell Fusion
Replies: 61
Views: 38644

93143 wrote:Maybe I've missed something, but wouldn't there be... practical considerations... involved in carrying around 20 T magnets in cars, completely aside from the danger of loss of superconductivity?
As in wiping your laptop hard drive while you drive to work?
by Enginerd
Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:11 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Favorable Comments made by ONR on Polywell Fusion
Replies: 61
Views: 38644

Lighter weight quick charge power source would be good in the automotive industry. Especially with charging stations becoming available. So the cost is the problem, coupled with the risk of the refrigeration drawing down the power while parked until ... well, until refrigeration fails for lack of p...